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Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Second Edition

By : Jürgen Gutsch
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Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Second Edition

By: Jürgen Gutsch

Overview of this book

ASP.NET Core is packed full of hidden features for building sophisticated web applications – but if you don’t know how to customize it, you’re not making the most of its capabilities. Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 is a book that will teach you all about tweaking the knobs at various layers and take experienced programmers’ skills to a new level. This updated second edition covers the latest features and changes in the .NET 6 LTS version, along with new insights and customization techniques for important topics such as authentication and authorization. You’ll also learn how to work with caches and change the default behavior of ASP.NET Core apps. This book will show you the essential concepts relating to tweaking the framework, such as configuration, dependency injection, routing, action filters, and more. As you progress, you'll be able to create custom solutions that meet the needs of your use case with ASP.NET Core. Later chapters will cover expert techniques and best practices for using the framework for your app development needs, from UI design to hosting. Finally, you'll focus on the new endpoint routing in ASP.NET Core to build custom endpoints and add third-party endpoints to your web apps for processing requests faster. By the end of this book, you'll be able to customize ASP.NET Core to develop better, more robust apps.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Chapter 1: Customizing Logging

In this chapter, the first in this book about customizing ASP.NET Core, you will see how to customize logging. The default logging only writes to the console or the debug window. This is quite good for the majority of cases, but sometimes you need to log to a sink, such as a file or a database. Or, perhaps you want to extend the logger with additional information. In these cases, you need to know how to change the default logging.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Configuring logging
  • Creating a custom logger
  • Plugging in an existing third-party logger provider

The topics in this chapter refer to the hosting layer of the ASP.NET Core architecture:

Figure 1.1 – The ASP.NET Core architecture

Figure 1.1 – The ASP.NET Core architecture